This swath of dust, which blocks out light from the bright nebula Gum 55 behind it, is known as the Dark Wolf Nebula.

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

Launched in 2014, Elite Dangerous is an elaborate simulation played primarily in first-person, either from the bridge of your ...

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How did supermassive black holes get big so fast? Astrophysicist Souphie Koudmani tells us how she and her colleagues are finding out.

The Event Horizon Telescope's famous image of Sagittarius A* may depict an artifact, raising questions about the black hole's ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

"We hypothesize that the ring image resulted from errors during EHT's imaging analysis and that part of it was an artifact, ...

The famous first picture of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy might not be accurate, a new study has ...

These new results suggest that the Milky Way could be part of the larger Shapley basin, a discovery that challenges previous theories on cosmic flows. This changes our understanding of how massive ...